Thank you folks!

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

Hi,

 I wanted to thank whoever made this happen (and that's certainly a
 _lot_ of people).  Today, for the first time in _many_ years I was able
 to compile a somewhat complex C++ program using templates and a couple
 of external libraries[0] on a Debian (unstable) machine and it ran on a
 machine with SuSE 8.2 just like that.  There was a time when not even a
 C "Hello, World!" would accomplished this feat.

 Marcelo

 [0] 0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libSDL-1.2.so.0]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libGLEW.so.1]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libGL.so.1]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libGLU.so.1]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libstdc++.so.5]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libm.so.6]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]
     0x00000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]